This full day workshop takes place during the General Orientation Week. The purpose is to orient the resident to physical assessment skills they may require during their direct patient care rotations.

This workshop takes place in the Coronation Annex (Island Medical Program) at the Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH). What we observe is basic to the care of the patients/clients. Pharmacists must develop proficiency for the observation of both overt & covert signs & symptoms of problems. Symptoms are either objective or subjective. Objective symptoms are objective indications of disease that can be observed by others & measured by instruments. Subjective symptoms are apparent only to the patients. Inflammation & swelling are objective symptoms since others may observe them. Subjective symptoms such as itching & pain are those felt by the patient.